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Archive for August, 2010
Good news! Michigan Muslim “probably not a terrorist”
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 31/Aug/2010 23:50
The New York Times reports:
WASHINGTON — American law enforcement officials said Tuesday that they believed that two Yemeni men detained in Amsterdam after unusual items were found in their luggage had no connection to terrorism…
Though no explosives were found, investigators considered the possibility that the men might be conducting a test run for a terrorist attack, officials said.
By Tuesday, that possibility was all but ruled out. Neither man was on any terror watch list or had any known history of militancy.
A search of Mr. Soofi by airport security screeners in Birmingham, Ala., as he waited to board a flight to Chicago on Sunday found that he was carrying $7,000 in cash and that his luggage contained a cellphone taped to a bottle of Pepto-Bismol, three cellphones taped together and several watches taped together, officials said. The bag also contained pill bottles, a box cutter and three large knives, according to an internal Transportation Security Administration report.
None of the items violated the restrictions for checked luggage, and Mr. Soofi was allowed to fly to Chicago.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/world/europe/01plane.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
My favorite part was, “Neither man … had any known history of militancy.” They are followers of a militant ideology that teaches its followers to kill infidels. How stupid are we?
Michigan Muslim and pal charged by Dutch police with “preparation of a terrorist attackâ€
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 31/Aug/2010 23:40
“Two men taken off a Chicago-to-Amsterdam United Airlines flight in the Netherlands have been charged by Dutch police with “preparation of a terrorist attack,” U.S. law enforcement officials tell ABC News.
U.S. officials said the two appeared to be travelling with what were termed “mock bombs” in their luggage. “This was almost certainly a dry run, a test,” said one senior law enforcement official.
The men were identified as Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi, of Detroit, MI, and Hezem al Murisi, the officials said. A neighbor of al Soofi told ABC News he is from Yemen.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/united-flight-arrested-terror-charges-amsterdam/story?id=11517664
Detroit, Michigan, folks. What else is in Detroit, Michigan?
Oh, yeah, this:
More and more “homegrown” terrorists are going to be in the news, mark my words.
And remember: it’s not a phobia if the threat is real.
CBO: Eight Years of Iraq War Cost Less Than the Stimulus Act
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 31/Aug/2010 23:29
“Congressional Budget Office numbers show that the total cost of the eight-year war was less than the stimulus bill passed by the Democratic-led Congress in 2009.
According to CBO numbers in its Budget and Economic Outlook published this month, the cost of Operation Iraqi Freedom was $709 billion for military and related activities, including training of Iraqi forces and diplomatic operations.
The projected cost of the stimulus, which passed in February 2009, and is expected to have a shelf life of two years, was $862 billion.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/30/cbo-years-iraq-war-cost-stimulus-act/
Starting this week the entire border between the United States and Mexico will be patrolled by aerial drones
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 31/Aug/2010 23:17
Image courtesy General Atomics. An artist's rendition of Predator B, the unmanned aerial drone patrolling the US-Mexico border for human and drug trafficking, and other threats.
Beginning this Wednesday, the entire 2,000 miles of border between the United States and Mexico will be patrolled by unmanned aerial drones. Three drones are already patrolling portions of that border, and a fourth Predator begins operations tomorrow out of Corpus Christi, TX, completing the full stretch of la frontera.
Mexico Violence Reaches Cancun – 8 Dead
Posted by Gary in News, Threat Watch on 31/Aug/2010 22:58
From: Fox
At least eight people were killed Tuesday when a group of men tossed Molotov cocktails into a bar in the tourist friendly Mexican town of Cancun, officials said.
Authorities said six to eight men entered the Castillo de Mar bar and threw homemade bombs, killing six women and two men who were inside.
Investigators said they do not know of a motive for the attack, but the bar was reportedly the victim of two extortion attempts, allegedly by the Zetas drug cartel.
“The death of eight people is confirmed. Six on site — including four women — and two others in hospital, also women,” prosecutor Francisco Alor Quezada, from the southeastern state of Quintana Roo, told AFP.
Mexican President Calderon’s proposed plan to battle cash smuggling and money laundering.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 31/Aug/2010 19:47
“MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderon proposed sweeping new measures Thursday to crack down on the cash smuggling and money laundering that allow Mexican cartels to use billions in U.S. drug profits to enrich their criminal organizations.
Legislation introduced by the Calderon administration would make it illegal to buy real estate in cash.
The new laws would also limit the purchase of vehicles, boats, airplanes and luxury goods to 100,000 pesos in cash, or about $7,700. Violators could be sentenced to five to 15 years in prison.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/mexico-targets-money-laundering-with.html
Mexican drug cartels are moving tens of billions of dollars in profits south across the border
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 31/Aug/2010 19:47
“LAREDO, TEX. – Stashing cash in spare tires, engine transmissions and truckloads of baby diapers, couriers for Mexican drug cartels are moving tens of billions of dollars in profits south across the border each year, a river of dirty money that has overwhelmed U.S. and Mexican customs agents.
Officials said stemming the flow of this cash is essential if Mexico and the United States hope to disrupt powerful transnational criminal organizations that are using their wealth to corrupt, terrorize and kill.
Despite unprecedented efforts to thwart the traffickers, U.S. and Mexican authorities are seizing no more than 1 percent of the cash, according to an analysis by The Washington Post based on figures provided by the two governments.
The drug traffickers and their Colombian suppliers smuggle $20 billion to $25 billion in U.S. bank notes across the southwest border annually as they seek to circumvent banking regulations and the suspicions aroused by large cash deposits, studies by federal officials, regulators and academics show.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/stepped-up-efforts-by-us-mexico-fail-to.html
The Roots of Organized Crime in Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 31/Aug/2010 19:42
Daniel Arizmendi, alias "El Mochaorejas" (ear cutter)
“Organized crime in Mexico today did not form itself in a vacuum, its structure originates from the police and security forces of the Mexican State. That is why this drug war is so bloody and extends to all levels of government and society.
Over the past 30 years, corruption, impunity and the political and discretionary application of justice converted every police officer and every public safety agency into a criminal entity. Whether willing or otherwise, every Mexican police officer, every ministerial (investigative) official, to survive as such, had to break the law and abide by the codes of special privileges granted by the ruling political power, the PRI.
Police were segregated from society and their use in an ideology of political and social repression led to corruption. The political class for decades, and clearly after 1968 and 1971, found in this corruption a vein of gold and overindulged itself on it. The use of laws, rules and regulations for the purpose of extortion was institutionalized.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/roots-of-organized-crime.html
F-22 Raptor
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 31/Aug/2010 19:36
F-22 Raptor pulling so many Gs, the low pressure air over the fuselage gets cold enough for the water to condense. The angle is just right for sunlight to make rainbow colors around the airplane
New Rock River Arms 5.56 Pistol
Posted by Gary in Handguns, Rock River Arms, Warrior Tools on 31/Aug/2010 14:34
From: Down Range TV
The Rock River Arms PDS Pistol is the first of a new generation of firearms employing Rock River Arms’ patent-pending Piston Driven System (PDS). Utilizing a purpose-designed bolt carrier, an adjustable gas piston and an over-the-barrel spring and guide rod arrangement, the Rock River Arms PDS is able to completely eliminate the traditional recoil system associated with AR-style firearms, making for an extremely versatile weapon platform. The design of the upper receiver and guide rod base prevents gas blow-by to the back of the receiver. The two position adjustable regulator is conveniently positioned on the right side of the regulator housing.
The New PDS Pistol has a full length top mounting rail from the rear of the receiver to the regulator housing, allowing flexible placement of numerous optics, lights, lasers and other accessories. The folding ambidextrous, non-reciprocating charging handles may be used independently or in unison to charge the RRA PDS Pistol. The RRA PDS Pistol features a MS1913 rail on the rear receiver adaptor as well as an MS1913 rail on the regulator housing which allows sling or weapons mounting capabilities. The handguard features an integral Operator Safety Flange to help prevent support-hand movement/slippage towards the muzzle.
State Department Issues Travel Warning For Mexico
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 31/Aug/2010 12:39
Finally the government has recognized there is a problem:
Mexico
August 27, 2010
The Department of State has issued this Travel Warning to inform U.S. citizens traveling to and living in Mexico about the security situation in Mexico. The authorized departure of family members of U.S. government personnel from U.S. Consulates in the northern Mexico border cities of Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey and Matamoros remains in place. However, based upon a security review in Monterrey following the August 20, 2010 shooting in front of the American Foundation School in Monterrey and the high incidence of kidnappings in the Monterrey area, U.S. government personnel from the Consulate General in Monterrey have been advised that the immediate, practical and reliable way to reduce the security risks for children of U.S. Government personnel is to remove them from the city. Beginning September 10, 2010, the Consulate General in Monterrey will become a partially unaccompanied post with no minor dependents of U.S. government employees. This Travel Warning supersedes the Travel Warning for Mexico dated July 16, 2010 to note the changing security situation in Monterrey.
Millions of U.S. citizens safely visit Mexico each year. This includes tens of thousands who cross the border every day for study, tourism or business and at least one million U.S. citizens who live in Mexico. The Mexican government makes a considerable effort to protect U.S. citizens and other visitors to major tourist destinations.  Resort areas and tourist destinations in Mexico do not see the levels of drug-related violence and crime reported in the border region and in areas along major drug trafficking routes. Nevertheless, crime and violence are serious problems. While most victims of violence are Mexican citizens associated with criminal activity, the security situation poses serious risks for U.S. citizens as well.
It is imperative that U.S. citizens understand the risks involved in travel to Mexico, how best to avoid dangerous situations, and who to contact if one becomes a victim of crime or violence.  Common-sense precautions such as visiting only legitimate business and tourist areas during daylight hours, and avoiding areas where criminal activity might occur, can help ensure that travel to Mexico is safe and enjoyable. U.S. citizen victims of crime in Mexico are urged to contact the consular section of the nearest U.S. Consulate or Embassy for advice and assistance. Contact information is provided at the end of this message. Read the rest of this entry »
“If Iraq is to teach us anything, it must be that a new idea cannot be beaten into a society.”
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 30/Aug/2010 22:45
“In the summer of 2006, Maj. Walt Cooper was convinced that his Special Forces team’s work was only contributing to the violence spiraling out of control in Baghdad.
Cooper and his soldiers were training a police battalion that took orders from a radical Shiite militia. “We know that the guys we train are some of the same dudes who are putting bullets in the back of people’s heads or going to work on them with power drills,” he wrote in a July 2006 e-mail home.
As the months passed, his cynicism and anger grew. “This place is now rotten to the core,” he concluded.
A year later Cooper was back in Iraq, working with 150-man police unit. His second tour, which coincided with a surge of about 30,000 American soldiers, almost felt like a different war. Violence dropped. Markets opened. Something resembling stability seemed to take hold. Cooper remembers his battle-scarred Iraqi police partner from that period as a brother in arms.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/29/AR2010082903874.html
Border Patrol Agents arrested 2,788 from October 2005 through last September – on the Canadian Border.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 30/Aug/2010 22:32
Todd Heisler/The New York Times Border Patrol agents in the north routinely board Greyhound buses and Amtrak trains to check the immigration status of riders.
ROCHESTER — “The Lake Shore Limited runs between Chicago and New York City without crossing the Canadian border. But when it stops at Amtrak stations in western New York State, armed Border Patrol agents routinely board the train, question passengers about their citizenship and take away noncitizens who cannot produce satisfactory immigration papers.
“Are you a U.S. citizen?†agents asked one recent morning, moving through a Rochester-bound train full of dozing passengers at a station outside Buffalo. “What country were you born in?â€
When the answer came back, “the U.S.,†they moved on. But Ruth Fernandez, 60, a naturalized citizen born in Ecuador, was asked for identification. And though she was only traveling home to New York City from her sister’s in Ohio, she had made sure to carry her American passport. On earlier trips, she said, agents had photographed her, and taken away a nervous Hispanic man.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/nyregion/30border.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Violence Rampant in Ciuadad Juarez
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 30/Aug/2010 22:29
Three bodies found among the trash along a road in "Curvas del Perico" executed with multiple gunshots to the head.
“Around-the-clock executions, routine kidnappings, burnings of rural homes, hangings of murder victims from overpasses, scatterings of body parts on public streets, a car bomb, and threats of more violence have all put Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua on extreme edge.The violence boils as the administration of Chihuahua Governor Jose Reyes Baeza, state legislature and municipal governments enter their last months in office and prepare to hand over political leadership to others from the same Institutional Revolutionary Party.”
3,200 Mexican federal police fired since May
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 30/Aug/2010 19:32
A Mexican federal police officer frisks a man during an anti-narcotics operation in Michoacan.
“Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) — About 3,200 Mexican federal police have been fired since May for failing to do their work or being linked to corruption, Federal Police Commissioner Facundo Rosas said Monday.
Of those, 465 have been charged with crimes.
In addition, Rosas said at a news conference, another 1,020 officers face disciplinary proceedings for failing confidence exams.”
(Cartels announce 3,200 job openings.)